KIRWAN, Edmund Francis
| Service Number: | 118436 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Perth, WA, 14 March 1915 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Hale School |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed In Action, 11 July 1943, aged 28 years, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Leuchars Cemetery Sec M Grave 33 E |
| Memorials: | Wembley Downs Hale School Honour Roll 2, Wembley Downs Hale School Memorial Grove |
World War 2 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Royal Air Force , 118436, Royal air Force Volunteer Reserved 540 Sqdn. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of the Hon. Sir John Waters Kirwan, M.L.C., J.P. and Lady Kirwan (nee Quinlan), of Perth, Western Australia. M.A. (Cantab.).
TO WAR COMRADES "HE WAS OF THE GREATEST" AND TO ALL, KIND IN THOUGHT, WORD AND DEED
'He Was of the Greatest'
The 'Evening Standard,' London, of March 28 last, has the following: 'Members of a R.AF. Mosquito squadron have presented to Sir John Kirwan, President of the Legislative Council of Western Australia, a model of a Mosquito flown by his son, Flying-Officer E. P. Kirwan, R.A.F., who served with the squadron until his death last year. A small silver plate is inscribed 'In great honour of Flying Officer E. F. Kirwan (Eddy). He was of the greatest. We fight on.'
When the above was shown to Sir John Kirwan he said he had not yet received the model, but photographs of it, also letters about it, had reached him. He had replied expressing the warm appreciation of Lady Kirwan and himself of such a high tribute to their late son from comrades who fought with him and who were best able to judge his worth.
FLYING-OFFICER E. F.
KIRWAN
Perth, July 20. — Sir John Kirwan, president of the Legislative Council, last Week received a cablegram from the. R.A.F., England, officially informing him that his son, Flying-Officer Edmund F. Kirwan, had been killed in an air action on Sunday, July 11.
The late officer was born in Perth in 1915. From Downside he went to Cambridge, where he graduated as B.A. and later received his M.A. degree. He was doing his last year of medicine at Guy's Hospital when the war broke out, but he abandoned his medical studies and joined the R.A.F. Sub sequently he participated in numerous bombing raids and aerial at tacks and by the end of 1942 he had completed his 50th operational flight over enemy territory His elder brother, Wingcommander Kirwan, D.F.C., in a cable gram to his father, said: 'I was able to get to the Requiem Mass and funeral. He acted bravely and nobly and died a credit to you and to Australia. We are all very proud of him and you, too, will be very proud when you hear details.'